Mining data through e-readers: At The New York Times, David Streitfeld profiles a few online businesses that track e-reader data, from Amazon and Barnes & Noble down to Scribd and Oyster. One of the article's focuses? How authors might use such data to inform their writing decisions. A HarperCollins digital officer says the publishing house would "absolutely" share such data with its authors, though the publisher would leave creative decisions to the writers. One writer tells Streitfeld, "If you aren't careful, you could narrow your creativity... But the bigger risk is not giving the reader what she wants." Is it?